“God is fair and just” - Psalm 25:8 (NIV)
It is tempting to go through life bitter shouldering the burden that life here on earth is not fair. A couple of months ago I saw a picture of a young under nourished child who died from starvation as a result of the war in Yemen. What had that child to do with such a bitter and coarse war? Is life here on earth fair, you and I can wonder!
Life on earth is not fair because we live in a fallen world (Genesis 3). After the fall of Adam we all live on cursed grounds. Neither has any living being done anything to deserve fairness- for we have all fallen short of God (Romans 3:23). However, much as we long for a paradise on earth it will not be and in fact, our Lord Jesus warned us, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
For believers there is indeed comfort in the knowledge that while the world we live in and all around us we are stuck with unfairness we have a fair and just God. Our Lord Jesus is seated at the right hand of God and will one day judge the dead and living with God’s just laws. So, when you notice things that trouble you take heart that a day will come when a just and fair God will reign supreme.
Prayer for today: Lord Father in heaven, whenever I encounter with unfairness help me remember that you are a fair and just God and one day your just laws shall reign over the earth.
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08/05/2024 - 09/05/2024 All day“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” (2 Corinthians 9:15)
The culture of sharing gifts runs through scriptures and is at the heart of the Gospel. Upon realizing that Jesus Christ had been born the three wise main did not just go empty handed. “On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh” (Mathew 2:11).
When Jacob decided to return to his country, he went with gifts to soften the heart of his twin brother Esau, whom he had left maddened at him for various wrongs. “Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau: 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, 30 female camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys” ( Genesis 32: 13-15). The reason was, Jacob thought, “I will try to appease him by sending gifts ahead of me. When I see him in person, perhaps he will be friendly to me.” So the gifts were sent on ahead, while Jacob himself spent that night in the camp” (vv 2—21).
Esau was already a wealthy man and had no need of the gifts presented. But Jacob pleaded with him. “Please take this gift I have brought you, for God has been very gracious to me. I have more than enough.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau finally accepted the gift” (Genesis 33: 11). This symbol of good touched Esau, brightened his heart, burying the old acrimonious relation.
Taking after these two instances believers should be in the habit of sharing gifts. We should visit each other not empty handed but like the wise men with gifts, not so much that those we are gifting are lacking, but as a way of blessing them. Proverbs 11:25-26, says, “Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.”
Most importantly we bless each other with gifts because we have received the most important gift there is in life, the gift of salvation. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, today I thank you for the most precious gift of all that you gave me of eternal life through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and so I pray that I may not hesitate to share this gift and bless those with as much whom you enable me to meet, this I pray in Jesus’ name.
